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Broken Sky (2006)

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Reviews Counted:14

Fresh:6

Rotten:8

Average Rating:4.5/10

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 2 hrs 20 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Sep 29, 2006 Limited

Synopsis: This mostly silent, gay-themed Mexican movie is an artful look at relationships and sex between men, and is filmed in the breathtaking surroundings of the National Autonomous University in Mexico... This mostly silent, gay-themed Mexican movie is an artful look at relationships and sex between men, and is filmed in the breathtaking surroundings of the National Autonomous University in Mexico City. [More]

Director: Julian Hernandez

Director: Julian Hernandez
Studio: Strand Releasing

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This thing crawls over a torturous 140-minute running length, with teenage love given a dire gravitas which verges on the absurd.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
03/01/07
David Noh
David Noh
Film Journal International

It's hard to know what fetishes/obsessions/issues are at work here, but they do yield interesting moviemaking.

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
02/09/07
Don Willmott
Don Willmott
Filmcritic.com

After such a triumph with A Thousand Clouds of Peace (Mil Nubes de Paz Cercan el Cielo) the second installment in Julián Hernández's apparent "Cielo" series is a sluggish disappointment.

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02/05/07
S. James Wegg
S. James Wegg
JWR

I have jokingly described BROKEN SKY (EL CIELO DIVIDIDO) as the gay, Mexican version of THE BREAK-UP, although to be fair, this film at least has more sympathetic characters. ... But, at 140 minutes, [it] goes on far too long.

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01/11/07
Ted Murphy
Ted Murphy
Murphy's Movie Reviews

A film dripping with melodrama and pretension.

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11/23/06
Tim Grierson
Tim Grierson
L.A. Weekly

[Director] Hernández's approach makes all the difference, trusting the camera to reveal the ebb and flow of emotions that sweep over all three men.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
11/21/06
Kevin Thomas
Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times
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An endurance test notable mainly for its evocative cinematography and the well-toned bodies of its young male leads.

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10/18/06
Frank Scheck
Frank Scheck
Hollywood Reporter
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Hernandez's exquisite romance works on an emotional, as well as intellectual, level.

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09/29/06
Ken Fox
Ken Fox
TV Guide's Movie Guide

I could have gone out for dinner, come back and missed little of importance.

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09/29/06
V.A. Musetto
V.A. Musetto
New York Post
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I suspect the film's frank, at times glorious rendering of queer sexuality will inspire more than a few closeted youths to brave life out in the open.

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09/29/06
Keith Uhlich
Keith Uhlich
Slant Magazine

Boy meets boy like youve never seen in Julián Hernándezs sex-drenched, extravagantly minimalist epic.

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09/28/06
Nathan Lee
Nathan Lee
New York Times
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Without dialogue, we don't know who the characters are, so we can't care about what they do.

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09/26/06
Melissa Levine
Melissa Levine
Village Voice
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Love-making in Hernández' film is not a physical act but an emotional state expressed through physical action. Certainly not multiplex fare, but definitely one of the year's best films.

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04/25/06
Boyd van Hoeij
Boyd van Hoeij
european-films.net

The pic's torturously slow pace turns an earnest effort into a tedious aesthetic exercise.

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04/25/06
Deborah Young
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Variety
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